The Three Bears Method of Website Building

Welcome. The Three Bears Method is about learning to make a promotional writer's website of your very own Just Right in three ways:

• Laying the Table - The Foundations, the Background, the Objectives
• Making the Porridge - The Practical, the How-To, the Hands-On
• Adding the Cream - The Extras, the Explanations, the Reference Material for Later

Three Bears Method courses have been designed by a professional team.
Gracie has been active in the writing world for over a decade. Jem has taught computing at a tertiary institute, and currently writes web applications for industry. Between them they have more than forty years of computer experience to benefit you.

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Is this you?

	You are a writer—published or unpublished—in any genre
	You want to become better known to readers, editors, and agents
	You probably do not yet have your own website, but know you need one
	You have looked at the "free" website path, and the advertising puts you off
	You can afford to invest a modest amount in your future, but cannot justify the expense of having a "starter" website designed and built by web consultants
	You are willing to invest time in your professional development over the next eight weeks
	You use a PC to write your manuscripts, perhaps using Microsoft Word
	You already use the Internet and Google to research aspects of your work
	You know how to email, and you are probably subscribed to various internet forums
	You may not be a computer expert, but you are prepared to give things a try

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Wonderful Writers' Websites^TM 101

More than just a course, an investment in your writing future.

Wonderful Writers' Websites (WWW) 101 is an eight week course designed especially for writers who want to become better known in the future by establishing a professional promotional website now. We give particular emphasis to the unique branding and marketing needs of the writing sector.

During the course you will:

• choose and obtain your very own domain name together with affordable web hosting
• obtain eight printable lessons to keep
• acquire background theory and translate it into practical work in each lesson
• discover the Whats, Hows and Whys of web page content
• identify the pages you need to get started
• develop the skillset necessary to create, evolve, and maintain them
• learn how to use the Web Page Maker tool to create the look and feel you want
• upload your basic Homepage to the internet by the end of the fourth lesson
• build a simple—but complete—operational website by the eighth lesson
• learn how to make your site rich in key words in order to gain recognition of your site by internet search engines
• hone your confidence in your ability to promote or market yourself and your work
• explore ways to make your work more attractive to agents and publishers
• join a community of other writers who have gone down this same road to website success and are thrilled that they did
• share access to these writers and to professional tutorial help through the forums

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To take part in the course you will need:

• A PC running Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, or similar⁴
• Internet access (broadband is needed to view instructional videos)
• 50MB of available disk space (yes that is only MB, not GB!)
• It is best if you do NOT already have a website or a domain name. You will obtain those during the course after you have learned some important pitfalls to avoid.

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About the Course:

• The main tool is a very popular program called Web Page Maker, which is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor similar to a word processor. It also enables you to upload your completed pages to your website for your visitors to see.
• A secondary tool is an image processing program called IrfanView. With this free tool you will be able to resize photo files for use as headers, book covers, page decorations, and backgrounds.
• There will be homework. Plan to spend 2 to 4 hours each week on your website during the course. The actual tutorials may each take only 1 to 2 hours to master, but once you have a page you will want to fill it with content, and that will take the extra time. The course is 8 weeks long.
  
• Updating the website—once complete—is fairly straightforward. The team has sought out affordable programs to allow you to edit and manage your website with minimal effort on your part, and at little cost other than your time.

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Costs of owning a website:³

• For leasing your website URL (its name): about NZ$20 per year for a .com website (recommended)
• For having your website hosted: about NZ$1 a week for the one we recommend. This includes ample storage to hold a respectable website and is based in New Zealand. It is simple to sign up, simple to use, and—best of all—there is no limit on how much traffic you can have to your site. An unusual bonus.
• For website editing software: The course is based around Web Page Maker at US$49.

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There are many aspects to the Three Bears Method website development course for Writers that I like: One particularly strong aspect is how Jem and Gracie guide you through the whole concept of marketing yourself as a fiction writer. There is a lot of valuable marketing advice in their lessons which you can utilise in the development of an active marketing plan for your fiction work; a marketing plan which will be underpinned by the website you develop during this course. Another excellent aspect is when you publish your site live on the internet for the first time! It's not as complicated as many of us think, using a simple, strong website programme like Web Page Maker, and in fact the whole process turns out to be very empowering and exciting. I recommend this course to any writer prepared to invest a modest amount of time and—compared to many other options—a relatively small amount of money to promote their work, build readership, and connect with readers via their own website. Cate Harris, Apprentice Author

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Costs of the course itself:

Just what would you pay to become known through your very own
Wonderful Writers' Website?

• The special introductory price for Wonderful Writers' Websites 101 is just $25 per week.
• July Special: Register today for For Wonderful Writers' Websites 101 and pay only NZ$12 per week for 8 weeks to learn the skills needed to create your own promotional writer's website at no risk to you.**

Register Free Today - Don't Miss Out!

By popular demand, the next course will now start on 6th September 2010.

Enrolments open one week before the course begins. You do not need to pay ahead of time to reserve a place on the course. Register today to qualify for the July Bonus.

	To register your interest, and
	To ensure a place on the course, and
	To guarantee a discount when you enrol, and
	To be kept informed of relevant course-related matters:
	No committment or down payment is required on your part.*
	Simply fill out the Request Form to register your interest.

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More and more writers have a significant web presence every day.
Why not you?

Best Regards,

 

Members of the previous Web Building 101 course will find their login and lessons here

*Registration of interest costs nothing. The course fee is only applicable when you enrol for the lessons.
**To simplify payments, the fee for all eight weeks is charged once, up front. Should you request to drop the course before you download
the fourth lesson, you may keep the first three lessons with our compliments, and we will refund the entire course fee actually paid.
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**Due to the time required for personal tuition and assistance, places on the courses may be limited.
***This is a COPPA requirement to allow us to email you.

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¹We personally use and recommend all software and services listed in the Classified Ads.
²Any purchase made through an affiliate link helps keep ThreeBearsMethod on the net. Thank you.
³All information is believed accurate at time of publishing this website.
⁴If you have a Mac or other computer, the sections of the course relating to Website Content and Marketing will be relevant,
and a program like iWeb may be used in place of the Web Page Maker program to achieve a similar result.

 

All material on this website not otherwise copyrighted is Copyright © 2009-2010 Jem Stanners & Gracie O'Neil Three Bears MethodTM, Just RightTM, Laying The TableTM, Cooking The PorridgeTM, Adding The CreamTM Wonderful Writers WebsitesTM, WWWTM, ThreeBearsMethod.comTM, and JaneSmithWriter.com TM are jointly held trademarks and properties of Jem Stanners and Gracie O'Neil 2009-2010. PO Box 214, Waihi, Waikato, New Zealand, 3641

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